*** Official St Louis Cardinals to the 2006 World Series Thread ***

[challenger84]

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Yet despite all that, he's worth $7m a year. We got Encarnacion for over $5m a year. It's not like there's a ton of easily available guys to take his spot and we already have awful glaring holes at the other OF spots.

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No doubt, I still think he's worth $10 mil. Just pointing out that he's lost some range.

[Clarkmeister]

Crucial win over the Reds today. Losing 3 in a row vs. them after pummelling them in the series opener would've been extremely discouraging.

[Schwartzy61]

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[djj6835]

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Three runs in three game against the pirates...wow. In the past few weeks they have been swept by the cubs, phillies, and now pirates. Pathetic.

[MyTurn2Raise]

I can only say how happy I have been to be on vacation and miss the last 3+ weeks of the Cards

Please Please Please have Mulder come back and be good

[Clarkmeister]

Big win today.

Most importantly, Chris Duncan continues to look awesome and more and more like a long term solution to our OF woes. Averaging 1hr/13ab and an ops over .950. Small sample size, but I'll take it and he's young and cheap.

Carpy gives the pen some rest, two full days since Monday was an off day. That was important since Reyes is usually only good for 5, maybe 6 innings at most.

[MyTurn2Raise]

They better put it together, because it is going to be a long fall with Illini football

[djj6835]

What a brilliant decision to not only play Timo Perez over both So Taguchi and John Rodriguez, but to then hit him in the very middle of the lineup. This way the Cards ensured to have him and his .230 batting average up in a multitude of key situations.

You always want to put your best lineup out there when you're in a heated division race and you're playing the second place team. Thank God LaRussa didn't do anything stupid like hit three good right handed hitters in a row in the middle of the lineup. You need to make sure you break that up by putting a bad left handed hitter in between those guys just to make sure momentum you do have going, stops right there.

LaRussa also made sure to not play the guy that went 3 for 3 in the previous game driving in two runs. He knows that the best time to rest a guy is in a key series just after he's put together a solid performance. Once again, he needs to make sure anything good that he did have going stops where it is.

[astroglide]

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He still makes a lot of highlight reel plays, but many of them are simply because he's lost his range and has to dive for balls he catches easily a few years ago.

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when edmonds catches a drive in shallow center, it looks standard. i think people overlook how far in he plays.

sure he has to run down the long ball, but he has the skill to do it. who cares if he has a ham sandwich in one hand if the ball's in the other?

i will be seriously saddened if he doesn't retire as a cardinal.

[astroglide]

i'm a tony larussa fan, but even i think that he went nuts on the arroyo/lefty thing tonight.

i'm even ok with timo coming in, but the 5 spot? come on.

pulling belliard the night after he finally hits stride in a cards uniform strikes me as especially horrible.